Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 29/09/2026I wish folk stopped posting CFPs as flat images with text that is not machine readable; makes everything harder. We should all know better by now... 120
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026Love this post is multi-authored. It could have used CRediT so we know who did what. It didn't. Not clear if that was intentional... 140
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026Looking forward to Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics next Thursday 1st October in That London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per... #GraphicMedicine #ComicsStudieseventbrite.co.ukPanels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in ComicsFrancisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum & Zara Slattery explore disability and neurodiversity in comics. Chaired by Dr Ernesto Priego (City HCID). 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026This will read like historical speculative fiction in the UK, but it's reassuring to read about like-minded souls out there in other realities 152
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026“as public funding for universities falls, there is a real danger that billionaire and corporate money begins to shape academia”. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comBacklash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle UniversityRole for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity 130
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026I am quite concerned that we (collectively) may be going through one of the darkest periods of our living memory, even if we've been through several already and every time one's wondered if it could get any worse. 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026So sad and concerning. Happy memories of buying the papers at UEA and also consulting more at the library. 120
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...theguardian.comNearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable onlineExclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad 110
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Love how folk will rationalise this by blaming poor data collection, taboo and superstition before daring to hypothetise that higher income does not equal higher levels of structural happiness 120
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026Survey takes _about 80 minutes_ to complete. Tell me you don't want the wider community to get involved without telling me you don't want the wider community to get involved... forms.gle/4zsB5U81YAtw...forms.gleFeedback Survey - DOAS Adaptation for OA BooksAre you a university, library, research institute, or another similar community based publisher or platform working with Diamond OA books? Then we need your input! The AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guid... 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026Keep on promptin'. Waiting for the sea: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...bbc.co.ukWaiting for the seaIt took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning. 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026Saint Augustine (13 November 354 - 28 August 430) reminds us love for money trumping love for study was already a thing for students back in his day 020
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026'Staff at the University of Essex are set to strike next week over cuts to 400 full-time jobs. The union, Unison, said admissions advisors, IT technicians, admin workers and other professional services staff would walk out on Monday over the proposals.'bbc.co.ukEssex University staff to strike over plans to cut 400 jobsStaff will walk out over a plan to cut 400 jobs, which the university says will protect its future 14640
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 15/09/2026Last night, for real, I dreamt the university campus had become a data center, so there's that. 030
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” (sic) www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comTrump attacks ‘sick conspiracy’ against AI as tech stocks slidePresident hits out after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back call to limit ‘reckless’ development 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026"In Britain, more than 320 newspapers closed down between 2009 and 2019" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWarning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John HarrisWhile fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026"The next solution, after we wake up, is to return to first principles. What are the ingredients for human flourishing? Once we can articulate that, it’s like a rope that can guide us back to where we should be." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWe greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid DelaneyThere are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026"Experts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities" www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1969...peoplemanagement.co.ukHalf of employees too busy to deliver meaningful work, survey findsExperts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026Behind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data Centers pulitzercenter.org/blog/behind-... via @pulitzercenter.orgpulitzercenter.orgBehind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data CentersPara leer esto en español, haga clic aquí. Image The exterior of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in El Burgo, Spain. From the story "Deciphering AI Water Consumption: How Amazon Hides How Mu... 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026And I mean, look at that image. It looks AI-generated to me. Is it? We don't know, because UKRI doesn't tell us. Whose idealised version of a research team is that? 021
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026What can possibly go wrong www.ukri.org/news/ukri-mo...ukri.orgUKRI modernises grant assessment for the age of AIUKRI is updating its grant assessment approach to speed up grant decisions, respond to generative AI and ensure we continue backing the best talent and ideas. 210
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026hahahahaha www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK economy sees surprise growth in July helped by AI boomThe economy expanded by 0.4%, official figures show, whereas analysts had predicted no growth. 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026Something deeply disturbing in the normalisation of using drones to commemorate 9/11. Essentially a military surveillance technology. Yeah, pretty (?). 110
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoPadmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As the hype cycle around recent declarations around the eschatonic potential of AI escalate, I want to bring people's attn: to this doc by one of the so-called "fathers" of AI, John McCarthy: www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/slides/d... That first sentence sums up almost everything abt these narratives.www-formal.stanford.edudartmouth-slidartmouth-sli 022
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026On the morning of September 11, 2001 I was meant to catch a plane from Mexico City to Washington, DC to attend ICAF/SPX 2001 (the International Comics and Animation Festival and the Small Press Expo), to be held September 14–16. It was not meant to be, obviously. 🖤 021
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026Hahaha beggars belief www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speechPresident makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate 100
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026"Overall reading scores saw particularly steep declines in the past three years, including in skills that matter most in the AI age [...]The instances of “hasty reading” - in which students read quickly but inaccurately - nearly doubled to 9% between 2018 and 2025." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...oecd.orgPISA 2025 Results (Volume I)The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel... 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026Kind reminder: 1st October, 6pm, London: Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics. Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum and Zara Slattery will examine how comics cann open up conversations about disability, neurodiversity, care and belonging. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per...eventbrite.co.ukPanels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in ComicsFrancisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum & Zara Slattery explore disability and neurodiversity in comics. Chaired by Dr Ernesto Priego (City HCID). 111
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 07/09/2026I know there must be lots of other posts saying the same, but: Regular, law-abiding people of all backgrounds peacefully protesting genocide: law to ban it, aggressive police clampdown, arrests. Racist thugs with criminal records violently intimidating regular and vulnerable people: it's fine. 040
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 07/09/2026Some lunchtime reading for you www.iwm.org.uk/history/seco...iwm.org.ukDisplacement and the Second World WarThe Second World War ended in 1945, but the consequences continued for many years afterwards. Find out what happened to people displaced by the Second World War. 020
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 07/09/2026Happy Monday. Imagine fleeing war, famine and persecution, leaving everything and everyone behind, to be be met by this lot like this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comWhat is Patriot Platform, the far-right group that descended on Dover and Portsmouth?Campaign groups say the anti-migrant collective, which gathers together a series of local groups, is home to a host of violent criminals 150
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 06/09/2026Humanity as a whole could be working towards a different kind of future, but we aren't. Resistance is not futile, but it's not proving enough. But just giving up like this -GenAI as "the water in which the next generation will swim" is facile, cowardly technological determinism 0225
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 05/09/2026“Using artificial intelligence, these images were stitched into a three-dimensional map of every neuron and the synapses where they communicate.” www.ukri.org/news/world-f...ukri.orgWorld-first map of a male fly brain a win for neuroscienceFor the first time, scientists have mapped every connection in the brain and nerve cord of an adult male animal. 010
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/09/2026For your delectation 21percent.org?p=432721percent.orgThe Curious Case of James Orr - 21percent.orgJames Orr is an Associate Professor at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity and, since February 2026, Head of Policy at Reform UK. He has described Nigel Farage's party as an "insurgent right-wing force" a... 000
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2... 20546257
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/09/2026You can always choose to (not) watch this as I have and (not) get depressed and angry again; it's Friday after all www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...youtube.comGoing undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plotYouTube video by Channel 4 News 110
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Read Byline Times archive on the associate professor of Divinity, head of Policy for Reform “I'm raising a lot of money for [REFORM UK] .... It gives me enormous power in the party” ✍️ James Orr Channel 4.bylinetimes.comFree News Site Free online access to the NEWS that shapeS our print edition out SOON IN PRINT & DIGITAL EDITION 89 – SEPTEMBER 2026 PLAYING WITH FIRE The fossil fuel age is burning itself alive.We know where this is headed.Why are we not doing anything? Nafeez Ahmed, Clive Lewis MP, Asad Rehman, Caroline Lucas BURNHAM’S CHALLENGE #ReformUncovered Got […] 114268
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/09/2026Posted on a whatsapp chat with a friend, "philosophically it's very interesting because it seems the working hypothesis of current GenAI people who aspire to General AI is that the ability to emote is in the end the result of quantitative processes" 110
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026Ben Delo, who was convicted in 2022 for failure to apply anti-money laundering controls, is Reform UK’s second biggest donor www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK gets another £4m from crypto billionaire pardoned by Donald TrumpBen Delo, who was convicted in 2022 for failure to apply anti-money laundering controls, is party’s second biggest donor 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comBen Jennings on the rise of datacentres in Britain – cartoonThe UK government does not know what the country’s datacentres are being used for, despite fears over the growing environmental impact of the AI boom 000
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026I supervised PG student projects over the summer, and as the submission deadline approaches, it’s been so nice to see how much they progressed and how they became experts in their topics and approaches. 110
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026Rest in power www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comGloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination 050
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoSelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 02/09/2026UPCOMING EVENT! Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics On October 1st, join Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum, and @zaraslattery.bsky.social with host @ernestopriego.com for this special talk on #neurodiversty and #disability representation in comics! 🔗 buff.ly/2Ldpo1G 022
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 02/09/2026Brexit means Brexit... migrant solidarity, _and_, also tired of these stories trying to elicit sympathy because it's middleclass white folk. How many migrant people of colour continue to suffer unfair immigration laws and their stories are rarely covered? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comBritish man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhoodJohn Sellers, 34, who moved with his family to Sweden aged 10, has been ejected despite his recent marriage to a Swede 210
Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 02/09/2026Kind reminder, in a month's time! Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics- A Panel Discussion with Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum, and Zara Slattery ernestopriego.com/2026/08/20/p... @selfmadehero.bsky.socialernestopriego.comPanels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics- A Panel Discussion with Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum, and Zara SlatteryLooking forward to chairing this panel on Thursday 1st October 2026, 6pm, room AG01, College Building, City St George’s, University of London. 131
Reposted by Ernesto PriegoThe Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026‘We were trying to aggravate everybody with Bitterkomix’: The Anton Kannemeyer Interview by Robert Aman www.tcj.com/we-were-tryi...tcj.com'We were trying to aggravate everybody with Bitterkomix': The Anton Kannemeyer Interview - The Comics JournalNowadays, unfortunately, satire isn’t even taught at many art schools anymore in fear of offending the students. 075